A growing space is what a plant is rooted in, and you can keep one before anything grows in it

Common questions

I brought my potted orange inside for the winter. Why is it still under Front porch?

It moves now — 14 October 2026. Tap Brought it in on Today or on the plant's page, or tell Rafe you brought it inside, and its pot is filed under a zone called Indoors, inside the house. If you already have a zone with Indoors in its name, the pot goes there. Otherwise the app makes one for you the first time, and if your yard map shows your house, the zone stands on the house. Rain does not count for anything in it.

In spring it goes back. Tap Moved it outside and the pot returns to the zone it came in from, Front porch in this case. Undo on Today puts it back too.

Two things stay put on purpose. A raised bed or a patch of ground never moves, and neither does a place that holds several pots when only one came in. You can rename Indoors to anything you like; the app still knows it is the house.

I told setup a plant was already growing. Why does Today ask when it went in?

Because setup no longer guesses, from 9 October 2026. It used to save a plant you said was already growing as planted that day, so a tomato in since May read like a seedling. Now it saves no planting date, and Today asks when it went in. Pick the month, or tap Don't know. Until then, its story starts with the day you added it, marked Added to your garden, not Planted.

A plant I harvested showed up as lost on the Garden tab. Why?

It should not have, and from 29 September 2026 it does not. For two weeks after a plant is finished, the Garden tab keeps it in its bed so you can see what was there. It used to count every one of them as lost, whatever happened, so a bed could read 1 plant · 3 lost when only one had died. Now only a plant you recorded as died counts as lost, and each finished plant's line says how it ended: harvested out, died or pulled out. A bed where everything is finished says nothing growing now. Any it lost are counted once, on the line above: 0 plants · 2 lost.

On the Garden screen, why are my growing spaces grouped under a heading now?

Because that is how the app has always held them, and from 17 September 2026 you tap into one to see what is in it. The screen used to lay every growing space out in one strip with its garden zone's name floating above as a caption — so two pots on the same porch, or two beds that happen to share a name in different zones, could look like one thing when they were two.

Now each garden zone is a row of its own: its name, how many growing spaces and plants it holds, and a line in words if something in it needs you — Bean Pot is dry, Bean Pot empties tomorrow, all fine, or nothing at all. Tap a zone's name and you are on its own page. Tap a space's card and its plants open in place, with See and the space's name at the foot to go to its own page; a pot holding one plant goes straight to that plant.

Once you are inside a zone, a breadcrumb sits under the header — Garden › your zone's name — and every part of it but the one you are on is a tap back up.

Growing spaces you have not put in a zone sit in their own "Not in a zone yet" section, last. If you have no garden zones at all, that section holds everything, with a card explaining what a garden zone is for and a Make a zone button.

⚠ A garden zone still does not go inside another garden zone. Back yard and Back yard orchard are two zones, not a zone and a sub-zone — this changed how the list is drawn, not what a zone is.

I tapped my potted tree and got the tree, not its pot. Where did the pot go?

Nowhere — from 23 September 2026 a pot holding one plant opens as that plant. On the Garden screen's spaces view and on a garden zone's page, the card shows the plant's name and picture, with the pot underneath it in small type (in its pot, or the pot's own name when it has one), and a tap opens the plant. The pot itself is one tap from the top of the plant's page, on the Growing space line, and the plant's Details tab has an Its pot section with what you have told the app about the pot and a link to its page.

A pot holding two or more different plants, or an empty pot, still opens as the pot, and so does a raised bed or a patch of ground with one plant in it — a bed is a place you are about to add to, and a pot is usually sized for one. Plants sown together in one pot count as one; the next question covers that.

My three beans in one pot show as one now. Where did the other two go?

They are all still there — from 23 September 2026, plants sown together in one pot show as one. Three wax beans you added in one go read Wax Bean ×3 on the Garden screen and on a garden zone's page, with one line saying what the pot needs, and the counts at the top of the Garden screen count them once. A tap opens the first of them.

Each bean still keeps its own record, so if one gets sick you can still tell it apart. Under the name, 3 plants, sown together opens the list on the Details tab, where Give it its own page pulls one out onto its own tile.

If you added them one at a time on the same day, opening one asks Show them as one? Tap Keep them apart and it stops asking on that phone. Plants put in on different days are different sowings, and the app never offers to join them. Only a pot does this: in a raised bed or in the ground every plant keeps its own tile, because there you can point to which one is which.

There is a row of three buttons at the top of the Garden screen — plants, spaces, map. What do they do?

They are three ways of looking at the same garden, and the one you tap is the list you get. From 18 September 2026 they were three cards; from 22 September they are one compact row, the first two reading their count and word and the third reading map — 19 plants · 6 spaces · map — so the row takes 44 pixels instead of a third of the screen. Tap spaces, the one it opens on, and each garden zone is a heading — its name, its count, a fold arrow — with its beds and pots as picture cards underneath, one line each saying what it needs: one is dry · water today, 4 ready to pick, all fine. Tap a zone's name and you are on its own page, where Edit changes it; tap the fold arrow and its cards fold away or open again, and your phone remembers which. Tap a card and its plants open under it as rows, in place; tap another and the first closes, so one bed is open at a time. At the foot of an open card, See Bed 1 opens the space's own page. Tap plants and it is a grid of pictures, three across, each one named with a dot for what it wants, under a place line — Main garden › Bed 1 — that stays at the top of the screen as you scroll past it; tap a tile and you are on that plant. Tap a Today count and the grid narrows to just those plants, under only the place lines that still hold one. Tap map and your garden is one map with three stops (from 12 October 2026): it opens on your first zone, its beds drawn to scale with each plant a dot in its own color. Tap a bed to go in to its plants; pinch out, or tap Yard above the map, for the whole yard.

Why: getting to a plant used to take three taps — into its zone, into the space, then the plant. With a zone's beds already on the Spaces screen, a bed or a plant is one tap from there.

The screen remembers which button you tapped last and opens on it next time, on this phone. The button that is on wears the same amber as any other chosen thing in the app. Beside the buttons sits a magnifier, which opens search in place of them.

The Garden screen shows my zones as headings now. What are they, and how do I fold one?

Each garden zone is a heading the width of the screen — from 22 September 2026 — and its growing spaces sit underneath as picture cards. Its name is a tap to its own page, where Edit changes it; beside the name a small › marks it as a door. Under the name, a line such as 2 pots · 5 plants counts what is in it. Tap the fold arrow at the right and the zone folds to just its heading; tap again and it opens. Every zone starts open, and your phone remembers which ones you folded.

Under an open heading, each growing space is a picture card — its own photo if it has one, otherwise its plants' drawings — with its name, its size, its count and one line saying what it needs. Tap a card and its plants open under it as rows, in place. Tap a row to open the plant. A plant that ended in the last two weeks still shows where it grew, struck through, so a loss does not simply vanish from a bed.

The shapes are deliberate. A zone is a plain heading, a space is a picture card, a plant is a row — so you can tell which level you are looking at without reading a label.

The ⋯ beside a zone's heading holds Rename, Remove zone and See on the map; the ⋯ on a card holds Move to another zone and Rename. Growing spaces that are not in any zone sit under a line reading Not in a zone, and Make a zone from these is under them once there are two.

What is the Today section under the buttons, and why do the numbers on it change what I see?

It is today's needs, counted across your whole garden — from 22 September 2026. The line reads Today with the date, the Walk button beside it, and a chevron that folds the section to one line of counts. Open, it shows four cards: how many plants want water (and how many of those are dry), how many are ready to pick, how many have another job today, and how many days until your first fall frost. The water, pick and job counts come from the same water clock and the same jobs your Today screen uses, so the four never disagree with it. The frost card is a number only; if you have not pinned your garden's frost dates it says no date yet.

Tap a card and the catalog shows only those plants. A zone or space with none of them disappears for the moment, each heading or card says how many it has — 3 want water — and a line under the cards reads Showing 7 that want water · Clear. Tap the card again, or Clear, and everything comes back. Folded or open, your phone remembers; the filter itself is forgotten when you leave, on purpose.

What are Yard, Zone and Bed above the garden map?

Three stops on one map of your garden — from 12 October 2026. Yard shows every zone where it stands. Zone shows one zone’s beds and pots drawn to scale, each plant a dot in its own crop’s color, dashed while it is still a plan. Bed shows one bed up close with its plants. Tap a zone to go in to it and a bed to go in to that, and tap a plant there to open it. Pinch out, or tap the stop above the map, to come back out; your phone’s Back button zooms out too. Under the map, the bed you came from keeps a card with Open bed. While the bed still has plants planned, the card also has Why here?, which opens that bed’s own page in the Garden Planner: its drafted plan drawn, with the reasons under it.

A bed or pot you have not placed waits under the map, in Not on the map yet. Arrange puts it where it stands: at the Yard stop it moves your zones, at Zone it opens that zone’s own map to drag beds on, and at Bed it opens the bed’s page to move its plants. When something sends you to a bed that is still waiting there, the map opens on its zone with the bed’s card, its name edged in gold in the list, and Arrange on the card.

Four places open the map right where you need it. A bed’s page and a plant’s page have See it on the garden map, which opens the map at that bed, with the plant ringed. In the Garden Planner, the same words under a drafted bed open its zone with that bed edged in gold. When Rafe draws a bed or a zone in the chat, the same words under it open the map there, with every plant he named ringed.

Can the app draw my yard for me?

Yes — from free public maps, from 13 October 2026. At the map’s Yard stop, Draw your yard finds your house from the spot saved for your garden, or from a street address and ZIP you type. It shows the aerial photo with every house outlined and yours picked already; tap a different one if that is wrong, then This is my house. Your yard is drawn around it to scale, north up, with a scale bar: your house labeled, your neighbors’ houses paler (their shade falls in your yard too), and your trees sized to how wide they spread.

The trees come from a tree-height map, so they arrive dashed until you say they are right. Here’s your yard says how many are still dashed. Looks right makes them all solid; Fix the map lets you change what the maps got wrong.

We use your address once, to find the maps, and do not save it. The maps are asked from our server, never your phone, so no map company sees who is asking. House outlines come from FEMA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory; tree heights from Meta and the World Resources Institute.

The map got my yard wrong. How do I fix it?

Open Fix the map — from Here’s your yard, or from the link under the map once you have looked. Tap a tree and it edges in gold with a white dot on its edge: drag the dot to set how wide it spreads, drag the tree to move it, and pick Short, Medium or Tall. It’s gone takes it off; Done says it is right, and it stops being dashed. + Tree, + Fence or wall and + Shed add one on open ground for you to drag into place; a fence has a dot at each end and its height in feet. Move house slides your house onto where it really stands, since the map’s outline can sit a few feet off.

The faint shading under your yard is where the sun falls. It counts the hours of direct sun from April to September: part sun is 3 to 6 hours a day, shade is under 3, and the rest is full sun. It redraws after each change. It knows your house, your neighbors’ houses, your trees, fences and sheds, but not hills or mountains.

Every change is saved the moment you make it, on your phone first, so going back keeps it. Done at the top takes you back to the map.

There is a map at the top of a garden zone now, with my beds drawn on it. What is it?

Your growing spaces, drawn on the zone to scale — from 18 September 2026. Tap a zone's name on the Spaces screen, or Arrange at the garden map's Zone stop, and its map sits above its list of spaces, the way a bed's drawing sits above its plants: the zone is the green ground, each bed, plot or pot is drawn on it at its own size (a 4 × 8 bed is an 8-by-4 rectangle; a 5-gallon pot is a small disc), and the bottom edge is the front. Tap a space to open it.

Tap Arrange spaces and drag each one to where it really is, then Done. A space drawn with a dashed edge has not been placed yet — it is drawn where it might be, packed from the front-left corner — and dragging it is what places it. A drop lands on the nearest foot. A bed stays inside its zone; one wider than a narrow porch keeps its middle on the porch, and where along it is yours to say.

How big is the zone? Say so under the map. Five chips — Mini · 100 sq ft, Small · 250, Medium · 600, Large · 1,500, XL · 3,000 — each a plain rectangle near that area, or Custom for a width and length in feet. Until you do, the map is drawn at 30 × 20 ft with a dashed edge and says so. Once you have, the size shows under the map with a Change, and Details on the zone reads it back.

A space drawn dashed but the right size is a space you have not placed; one drawn paler is one you have not measured — open it and give it a size under Details, and the map redraws it.

The zone's own page has the same map, under What is in it, above the row of beds — the same drawing whichever way you reach the zone.

Make a place smaller and nothing on it is lost. A zone or space whose spot now falls outside the smaller rectangle is drawn dashed again, inside, where it might be — drag it back to where it is. Its old spot is kept, so making the place bigger again puts it back.

The whole garden has the same map, one level up — behind the map button. From 22 September 2026 the Garden screen opens on Spaces; tap map in the buttons row and your garden is the ground with each zone drawn on it at its size, the list of zones under it. Tap a zone to open it — its own map is inside. Arrange zones drags each to where it is. Under it, How big is your garden? offers Mini · 500 sq ft, Small · 1,000, Medium · 4,000, Large · 8,000, XL · ½ acre, or Custom. Zones you have not sized are drawn smaller than they may be when they would not otherwise fit, and the map says so — open each zone and give it a size.

My orchard is in the ground and has no rows. Can I give it a size?

Yes — a width and a length, from 18 September 2026. Open the space, tap Details, then Edit: an in-the-ground space now asks How big is it? in feet, the same question a raised bed gets, with the rows question under it for the plots that have rows. Type 4 × 20 and the drawing on the space's page is drawn to that shape — a long thin orchard looks like one — and the room answer is in square feet: the plants in here want about 324 square feet and there is 80.

If you do grow in rows, say so and the rows win. A plot with rows is measured in feet of row whatever its width and length, because sixty feet of row is not sixty square feet. Give it both and the drawing shows the ground at its true size with the rows laid inside it — at the gap you said, or spread evenly when you did not.

Before this, every in-the-ground space was treated as a row plot, so an orchard with no rows had no size the app could use, and the question was never even asked.

I have a lot of plants. Is there a way to search my garden?

Yes — tap the magnifier at the right of the buttons row, from 22 September 2026. The search field opens in place of the three buttons, so a small garden and a large one pay the same for it: nothing until you ask. (From 17 September until then a field sat at the top once you held twelve plants or more.)

Type a plant's name, its crop, or where it lives — a growing space's name or a garden zone's — and every plant that matches comes back as a flat list, each row showing the path to it: Wax Bean ×3 — backyard › Bean Pot. Tap one and you are on that plant's own page. Typing a zone's name, such as backyard, finds every plant in it, not just a space literally called that.

Results come back in up to three groups — plants, spaces, then zones — each under a small count label, and a group with nothing in it is not shown. Typing a growing space's own name, such as Bean Pot, also brings back that space itself under Spaces; typing a garden zone's own name brings the zone back under Zones. Tap a space or zone result and you land on its own page, the same as tapping its name anywhere else.

Search replaces the catalog while you are typing — tap Cancel and the catalog is exactly where you left it.

How do I move a growing space to a different garden zone, or rename one, from the Garden screen?

Open the zone it is in, then the ⋯ beside the space's own row — from 17 September 2026. Move to another zone opens a picker of your garden zones; tap one and it moves, or make a new zone from there and it moves into that instead. Rename turns the row into a text box in place. A long press on the row opens the same two.

The zone itself has its own ⋯, beside the breadcrumb at the top of its page. Rename works the same way, in place. Remove zone asks you to confirm, tells you first that the growing spaces inside it stay — just without a zone — and gives you a full minute to tap Undo afterwards before it is final.

I have five pots on my porch. How do I say they are together, from one pot's own page?

From 9 September 2026 you do not have to go looking for it. If a growing space is not in a garden zone yet and you have more than one space, its own page now offers Link to a garden zone in plain sight, under its photo — tap a zone to join it, or make one if you have none. Before that the control was real but folded away under Details at the bottom of the page, which is a click nobody knew to make.

Open the pot, tap Details, then Edit — there is a Part of line, from 9 September 2026.

Tap the name of the place it belongs to and it joins. Tap the lit one again and it comes back out. If you have not made a place for them yet, the line offers Put these together and takes you to where you make one.

Why it matters, and it is not just tidiness. Say once that the porch is under cover, and every pot on it knows. The watering jobs follow, and so does what Rafe tells you, because both read the same answer. A pot you drag out into the rain can still say so for itself, and its own answer wins over the porch's — the nearest thing you have said is the one that counts.

You will not see the line when there is nothing to group. One pot and no places made means no question. It appears once there are two growing spaces, or once a place already exists to join.

I grow in a hanging basket and a wall planter. Is there a kind of space for those?

A basket, a wall planter or a stacked tower is a pot, and from 16 September 2026 a pot can say so. Open the pot, tap Details, then Edit — under the size there is a line, Where does it sit?, with three answers: hanging basket, wall planter, stacked tower. Leave it alone for a pot on the ground.

The roots are in a pot either way, so everything the app knows about pots is true of it. What changes is the reason on its watering job: a basket or a wall pocket loses water through its sides as well as its bottom, so it dries faster than a pot on the ground — and if one dries right out, stand it in a tub of water for an hour or two, never longer than two. Say it is a basket and the page says Hanging basket in its heading instead of Pot or container.

Not a fourth kind of space, on purpose. The three kinds say what the roots are in; a basket is a pot that hangs.

My tomato is in a cage and my beans climb a trellis. Where do I say that?

On the plant, from 16 September 2026. Open the plant, tap Details, then Edit — there is a line, What holds it up?: stakes, a cage, a trellis, an arch, or nothing. Tap the lit one to unsay it.

It is on the plant, not the bed, because the plant is what climbs. A trellis is not a place — the beans are rooted in a bed or a pot that already has its own page.

And it does a job. The app asks you to set a stake or cage while the plant is still small on crops that need one, and until now that job stayed on your list until you logged that you had done it. Name the cage and the job is done — on Today, on the walk and on the plant's own page alike. Nothing is an answer too: it means the plant has no support, so a crop that needs one still gets asked.

My new growing space shows no planting suggestions at all. Why?

Because it does not know how big it is yet — and from 10 September 2026 it asks instead of going quiet. Every answer in those two sections is worked out against the room you actually have, so a space with no size had nothing to say and said nothing, which is worst on a brand-new empty bed — exactly the one you most want ideas for.

Now the section asks. Four common bed sizes as buttons — 4×8, 4×4, 3×6, 2×4 — and one tap fills in both sections at once. A different shape, a row plot or a pot goes under the Details tab, where the full size questions live.

⚠ A pot still gets nothing, on purpose. How many plants fit a pot is about root volume, not floor space, and we will not convert one into the other by inventing a depth.

The bed's page says something Goes well with what is here. Where does that come from?

From 101 sourced companion claims, each with a reason and how well established it is — from 10 September 2026. When something is growing in a bed, the page suggests crops that go well beside it, and every suggestion says which of your plants it pairs with and where the claim comes from: measured in a trial, a known effect, or long-standing practice. We would rather tell you a pairing is chart folklore than let it sound like science.

It only offers what you could actually plant this year, so a companion that has missed its window is left out rather than dangled. And it will not suggest a plant that clashes with something already standing there — a companion for your tomatoes that suppresses the beans next to them makes the bed worse, not better. If two things already in the bed do not get on, it says so whether or not it has anything to suggest.

What it does not do is tell you what other gardeners plant. People ask for that and it is a good question; we will not answer it until enough real gardens exist to count, because a number made up from a handful of them is not a fact about gardeners, it is a fact about us.

The Garden Planner put onions right beside my beans. Doesn't every chart say to keep them apart?

Every chart does, and the evidence does not back it, so from 12 October 2026 the app stops keeping them apart. The old rule says onions and garlic poison the bacteria beans and peas use to feed themselves. Trials found no such thing. Garlic grown with faba beans raised the bean harvest by about a third, and an onion and bean trial found only mild crowding, with both crops still productive. So the Garden Planner puts them wherever they fit, each at its own spacing, and the drawing shows no line between them.

Two more chart rules went the same way. The cabbage family beside strawberries: a cabbage-family crop grown first actually cuts a soil disease strawberries get. And the cabbage family beside pole beans: pole and bush beans are the same plant, so a rule against only one of them has nothing behind it. The companion chart explains each one.

Where can I see all the ready-made beds, not just the ones for today?

On their own page, from 10 September 2026 — tap See all the ready-made beds on any growing space, or go to /beds. Every one is there all year with its picture and what it is for, and you can search it. The search covers the crops as well as the names, so typing corn finds the three sisters plot even though the word is nowhere in its name.

Coming from one of your growing spaces changes what it can tell you. Each bed then says how it stands in that space — whether it fits, how much room is spare, or what it is waiting for — and the ones that go in today are listed first. Opened on its own it says what each bed is and what is in it, and no measurements, because there is nothing honest to measure against.

There is a Ready-made beds row on the bed's page. What are those?

Ten ready-made beds — a salsa bed, a salad bed, a pizza bed, a stir-fry bed, a herb bed, one that keeps through winter, one for the bees, one for children, a first bed, and a three sisters plot — from 10 September 2026. Tap one and it works out what would go in your bed: how much of the space each part takes, how many plants where a number is useful, and what is left over.

It is a meal, not a plant list. A search box and 153 crops is a test; most people would rather start from I want salsa and see what that means in the bed they actually have. It scales to the space — the same salsa bed is a different plan in a 2×4 than in a 4×8.

It tells you the SPACE, and the number only when the number is useful. Tomatoes — about 16 square feet, room for 7. For carrots or lettuce there is no plant count at all, because you sow a patch and nobody counts the seeds. And past about a dozen the count stops being something you can buy against, so it says the space and stops.

If part of it has missed its season, it says which part — and whether that matters. A salad bed whose radishes have missed is still a salad bed, so it drops them, says so, and gives the room to the rest. A salsa bed without tomatoes is not a salsa bed, so that one waits for spring.

The ones that can go in TODAY are the buttons you see; the rest are one tap behind a line that says how many are waiting. In May that is most of them. In October it says nothing goes in today and offers you all ten anyway, each of which will tell you what it is waiting for. A bed also only sees the ones that suit it — a three sisters plot wants about 48 square feet and says so on anything smaller.

Nothing is saved until you tap a row. Each line takes you to the ordinary Add a plant screen with that crop already chosen. There is no Save-the-whole-bed button yet.

⚠ The salsa bed has no onions in it, on purpose. We hold no sourced planting calendar for onions, and garlic goes in around October while tomatoes go in around May — nothing you plant on one day covers both. Onions and garlic are also the cheap half of a salsa. The tomatoes, peppers and cilantro are the parts worth the bed.

From 10 September 2026 they lead an empty space instead of sitting near the bottom of it. Make a growing space and the first thing on its page is what to put in it: an amber Add plants button, and the ready-made beds that go in today where you are, each with a picture of what you get out of it. Once something is planted there, the page leads with the plants instead and the ready-made beds move back down — by then you are asking a different question, which is what to do with the rest of the bed.

The bed's page says What else would fit, and names one crop. Where does that come from?

From your own frost dates, today’s date, and how much room is actually left in that bed — from 9 September 2026. It works out how much of the space is free, then goes through every crop we hold a calendar for and asks the same question you would: can this still finish before your frost, and would it go in there?

It names ONE crop, not a list. A gap in a bed has one right answer and a deadline, and three options to weigh up is work rather than help. Up to three more that would also make it are named on the line underneath, and the number that cannot finish this year is a count, not a wall of names.

The line under the crop is why it is the answer. Usually that is how many days of margin it has before your frost — 23 days to spare — which is the one reason we can prove from your own weather station. For a crop that is not racing the frost at all, such as garlic, it says what is true instead: it goes in now, sits through the winter, and is harvested next summer.

It tells you how many would fit only when the bed is what limits you. Room for about 4 more is useful. About 489 would fit — which is honestly what a 4×8 bed holds in garlic — is not, so above a dozen it says nothing and lets the free space above speak for itself.

In October it will tell you there is room and nothing to put in it. That is the real answer for the middle of autumn, not a failure.

⚠ It is silent until it can be honest. No size on the bed, or a plant in it with no count yet, and it says nothing rather than guessing — answer the count question under Details and it appears. Without a location it still works, and says the dates are a national average rather than yours.

A growing space's page opens on a photo now, or on an empty frame with a camera. What is that?

Your own last look at that place, the same card the plant's page and the journal open on — from 8 September 2026. Since 22 September 2026 it is only ever a photo of that place itself. A photo shows on the thing you took it of and nowhere else. A plant's photo stays with the plant, so the pot or bed it grows in does not borrow it, and a garden zone does not borrow a bed's. A garden walk files each stop's picture to that growing space, or to the plant when the pot holds just one. A garden zone has its own camera on its page: take one of the whole zone and it becomes the zone's picture. Until a place has a photo of its own, the frame shows small icons of what is growing in it, with the camera to take one. A picture taken there is filed to that place, and a growing space's is also an entry on it, the way watering the bed is. Tap a photo to see it full size.

The bed is drawn with each plant where it stands. How do I move one?

Tap Arrange plants, the button on the top-right corner of the bed drawing on the growing space's page — from 8 September 2026 — then drag each plant to where it really stands, and tap Done. (For a few hours that day the button was called Edit and sat at the top of the page, where it looked as if it edited the whole space; it only arranges the plants, so it moved to the drawing it works on.) Nothing moves until you are editing, so a thumb on the drawing cannot shift a plant by accident. The drawing is to scale: every plant is its own circle the size its spacing needs — six tomatoes are six circles — and a row crop like carrots or radishes is one bar; the bottom edge is the front, where you stand. A plant the app has not placed yet is drawn in a lighter, dashed ring where it might be, and dragging it is what places it; a bed fuller than its spacing allows is drawn closer together and says so. There are no left-and-right arrows any more — the drag is the whole editor. From 17 September 2026 a drop snaps to the nearest square foot (a quarter of one for anything spaced under 12 in, such as herbs), so it lands on a clean, repeatable spot every time rather than wherever your thumb happened to lift. From 18 September 2026 a plant can go to the edge of the bed, and into a corner — its center two inches in from the edge line, in a pot as in a bed, and its circle hanging over, the way a tree's canopy hangs over the path; it used to stop its own radius short. Drop it nearer the edge than the nearest square foot and it lands on that two-inch line.

Why are some plants on the bed drawn with a dashed edge?

A dashed plant is a plan, and a solid one is where you said it stands — from 8 October 2026. Where a plant is drawn starts as a plan, whether you dragged it there, the app spaced it, or a plan put it there. Logging that you planted it does not change that, because it could have gone in anywhere in the bed. Tap a dashed plant and its card says Planned spot with an It's here button. (Until 14 October 2026 a quick tap opened the plant's page, and the card took a press and hold or Arrange plants.) Tap It's here and it turns solid and says Planted here. The card's Open goes to the plant's page, and so does a tap on a solid plant. If you had not logged it as planted yet, that counts as planting it today. A plant whose planting day is still ahead says Planned for that day, and the button waits until then. Plants already in your beds start dashed until you say where they stand.

On a bed's planting day, its page opens on the bed — from 14 October 2026. The line under its name says the date and planting day, and the bed sits right under it, above the photo. With two or more plants due, All here under the bed marks every plant that is due as planted in one tap. After that the line counts what went in, such as May 9 · 9 planted, and a plant not due yet says why it stays dashed: The basil isn't due till May 23, so it stays dashed and says when. That day the bed shows just its plants and the key; the companion lines are back the next day, when the page opens on the bed's photo again with the bed further down.

Why were the rows in my raised bed all drawn along the front?

That was our bug, and it is fixed — 6 October 2026. When you added a row crop to a raised bed, like carrots, garlic or lettuce, the app spaced the rows by the gap between plants in a row, usually 2 to 4 inches, and never left the gap a crop needs between rows. So a few rows were drawn crowded along the front of the bed while the back sat empty. Now each new row gets the gap between rows its crop needs, usually about 12 inches, so rows fill the bed from front to back. Rows already placed stay where they are: tap Arrange plants on the bed drawing and drag each one to where it really is. In a plot you laid out in rows yourself, your own gap between rows still decides.

What is the N on the edge of the bed?

Which side of the bed faces north, and only if you said so. Tap Arrange plants and every edge shows an N you can tap; the one you tap stays as a small black mark, and tapping it again clears it. The app never guesses this from your location. Once it knows, taller plants are placed toward the north side so they do not shade the rest — that is the only thing the mark changes.

There are colored lines between two plants in the drawing. What are they?

What the two plants do for each other, from the same sourced pairings as the companion chart. A green line between plants that touch is a companion pairing with real evidence behind it (a trial, or a mechanism that holds up). A red line is a pairing that hurts, with the same evidence. A faint dotted line is a traditional pairing — companion-chart folklore, shown as a hint and never as a warning. The words under the drawing say which is which and cite the evidence. An orange badge on a plant means its spot breaks a rule the app is sure of, such as being tighter than its spacing allows, and the reason is written under the drawing.

From 17 September 2026 each plant also carries a faint ring the size of its own spacing, not just its dot. Two rings that touch turn red, on the plant itself, before you even read a word under the drawing — and the sentence below now names both plants, such as Apricot is 6 ft from the Canadian Harmony peach; it wants 18 ft, instead of naming a crop. Tap that sentence and both plants flash so you can find them.

Is there a faster way to place several plants than dragging each one?

Tap Space them for me, under the drawing while you are arranging — from 17 September 2026. It appears once at least one plant has not been placed yet, and it lays out everything unplaced along the bed at the room each one actually needs — real spacing, never shrunk to make things fit. If some do not fit, it places what does and says so — 3 did not fit this row — this bed is 4 ft wide; a second row wants 18 ft between rows — rather than crowding them in and staying quiet. Anything it places is a normal drag from then on: move it again by hand any time.

When I add a plant it shows me where it would go. Can I change that?

Yes, after the add, by dragging it on the bed's page. The add screen draws where the plant will go, numbered when there are several, with one line saying why — near the front, picked often, or north side, tallest here. If some do not fit it says so, for example Room for 4 of 6, and the reason. Nothing is placed until you add it.

The bed page has a fold called What grew here. What is in it?

One small drawing per past season, newest first, showing where each plant stood in that bed — from the same record the current drawing reads. It appears only once something has finished in that bed. It is the start of the bed's soil story: what stood in a spot, and when, so planning can keep the same family out of it for a while.

Can I do anything to a plant from the bed drawing, or only look at it?

Both, from 8 September 2026. Looking: tap a plant and you are on its page. Press and hold one instead, and a small strip appears at the plant with Open and Remove. Arranging: tap Arrange plants, then a drag moves a plant and a plain tap opens the same strip. From 17 September 2026 the strip leads with the plant's own last photo — the crop's icon when it has none yet — and its name, so three peaches that look alike in the drawing are three plants you can tell apart before you tap Open. Remove asks the same three things the plant's own page asks — Harvested out, It died, Pulled it out — because ending a plant is an entry in its story, not a deletion; deleting outright stays on the plant's page. Every ending shows a line under the drawing with Undo for a few seconds, and Undo puts the plant back where it stood. Add another (called +1 before 17 September 2026) adds another of the same plant beside it, planted the same day and numbered on from it, and the strip stays open so three beans in a pot are three taps; Undo removes the one you just added. A record saved as a count — Wax Bean ×3 — offers Make 3 plants, which turns it into three plants, each its own, and that one stays: there is no Undo for a split.

Setup made a growing space called Raised bed. Can I rename it?

Yes, on its own page — and it was named that on purpose. Setup asks what kind of spot your first plant lives in — a raised bed, a pot, or the ground — rather than for a name, because the kind is what the app can use straight away and a name can wait. The growing space is created with the kind as its name. Open it from the Garden screen, and Details lets you rename it, give it a size, or say more. Nothing about your plant changes when you do.

A plant's page has a small label at the top with the bed's name. What is it?

Where the plant is, as a door. From 7 September 2026 the top of a plant's page says its growing space, and its garden zone before that if you have one — Back yard › Bed 1. Tap a word and you go up to that page. A growing space's page says its garden zone the same way, or My garden when it has none. It is built from your record, so it is right even when you arrive from a search, the journal or a task, and a level you do not have is simply not shown. There is no more single back to the garden link; the Garden button at the bottom is that. From 8 September 2026 the pill carries a chevron, and on the Garden screen an open bed card ends in See Bed 1 › — the bed page was always there, but a label-shaped pill did not say so. Every page in the family also says what it is, in small capitals above its name — GARDEN ZONE, GROWING SPACE, PLANT — and the bar at the top says the same word once you scroll, so the three words are learned where they are true.

There is a strip of the other plants under a plant's name. Why?

So you can move sideways without going up. The strip shows every plant in the same growing space, in the order they stand — where they stand on the space's drawing — Arrange plants on the space's page, or the walk's tap-to-order — with the one you are on marked. Tap another and you are on it. A growing space shows the other spaces in its garden zone the same way, and a garden zone shows the other zones. When there is nothing beside you, the strip does not appear.

What is the bar above the bottom buttons that says previous and next?

The walk, one tap at a time. On a plant's page it goes to the plant before and after along the route a garden walk takes: plant by plant through a bed, bed by bed through a garden zone, then into the next zone. When the next stop is in a different part of the garden it says so first — Next is the Front porch — so you are never moved without knowing. A growing space's page does the same, space by space. It never invents a next: the last plant has none, and a garden with one plant has no bar at all.

Where did the plant's Details go?

Behind one row, still there, still yours to change. Which kind, when it went in, how it started, where it is, how many, and its height sit under a Details row on the plant's page. Tap it and they open; every fact still writes the moment you change it. The long list of varieties for a plant whose kind you have not said opens there when you ask, instead of sitting on the page — on a tomato that was five screens of the page. If you came to answer which kind from the garden screen, that question still opens at the top, as before.

The bed's page used to show every entry ever made there. Where is that now?

One tap down, and folded by week in the journal. Every entry here on a growing space's page opens the same list as before, newest first. Above it is a door into your journal already searching for that space, which folds the same entries by week and month with the photos first.

There is a drawing of the bed on its page. What is it showing me?

The bed the shape it is, with each plant where it stands. From 7 September 2026 a growing space's page draws itself: a shallow bed, or its own proportions when you have given it a size, or a round pot. Each live plant is a dot with its crop's picture and its count, placed from the front-left corner of the bed at the spacing its crop needs — tomatoes farther apart than lettuces. Corn goes in as a block at least three rows deep, because corn needs neighbors to pollinate. From 7 October 2026 a new block is only as long as its count needs, so the rest of the bed stays free. The bottom edge of the drawing is the front of the bed, where you stand. Tap a dot and you are on that plant. On a plant's own page the same drawing appears small with that plant ringed, so you can see where it is among its neighbors.

Plants you added before this were placed the first time the bed was drawn, in the order you set with the arrows in Edit, and the caption under the drawing says they were placed by their spacing rather than by you. A bed you have not measured is placed as if it were four feet by eight; give it a size under Details and the spacing is worked out on the real bed. To move a dot to where a plant really stands, tap Arrange plants on the drawing.

The bed says twelve plants but there are only two rows in it. Which is right?

Twelve, and until 26 August 2026 it said two.

A row like Bush bean ×6 is one entry and six beans. Every count on the Garden screen used to count entries and call them plants — so a bed holding four rows of six lettuce told you it had four plants, and the header of a garden holding 84 said 14. Both numbers used the word plants and neither meant the same thing.

Now every count means plants. The header, each bed, each growing space in your list, the line about plants with no kind yet, and — the one that mattered most — the warning before you delete a bed, which used to tell you it would remove two things when it was about to remove twelve.

An entry with no number beside it counts as one. That is what the screen already showed you: no × means one plant.

Can I make a growing space before I have anything to put in it?

Yes, since 25 August 2026, and before that you could not. A growing space only came into existence as a side effect of something else — naming a spot while adding a plant, or telling the chat about a bed. There was no way to simply make one.

So somebody laying out their beds before planting had to invent a plant to hang each one off. + Add a growing space, at the foot of the Garden screen, takes a name and makes it, then opens the new growing space so you can add a size or say what kind it is if you feel like it. None of that is required; a growing space only needs a name.

I made a growing space and it vanished. Where did it go?

It did not go anywhere, and until 25 August 2026 this was a real problem rather than a misunderstanding. The garden screen grouped your plants by where they live, and a group with no plants in it was left out — sensibly, so the list is not padded with empty headings. The side effect was that a growing space with nothing in it was invisible, so making one appeared to do nothing at all.

Every growing space now has its own card on the Garden screen, empty or not. An empty growing space reads nothing in it yet, or nothing growing now once something has grown there and finished, which is a normal state and not an error.

Can I water a whole garden zone at once?

Yes — from 9 September 2026. On the Garden screen, tap a garden zone's name to open its page, and there is a Water button under the growing spaces it holds. Choose a splash, a normal watering or a deep soak, and every growing space in that zone gets it.

Each space gets its own entry, not one entry for the zone. That is on purpose: you water a porch by watering the pots on it, and the pots are what your garden's memory is about. Open any one of them afterwards and the watering is there, on the space and on every plant standing in it.

If you skipped one, say so before you confirm. When a zone holds more than one space they are all listed, lit up, and tapping one drops it from that round. A pot you watered yesterday is not due today — the app has no way to know which one you skipped, and you do. Nothing is written for a space you dropped.

Why we do not work out which ones need it. The amount you choose here feeds the water clock that decides when each plant is dry again. Guessing which pots were due and marking the rest done anyway would put a watering in your journal that never happened, and a record you cannot trust is worse than no record.

Warnings are still per plant. A garden zone cannot yet warn you about everything in it as one — that half is not built.

My front porch is covered, so rain never reaches it. Can I say so?

Yes — from 6 September 2026, on the garden zone. Tap a garden zone's name on the Garden screen to open its page, and answer Does rain reach here.

Everything in that zone follows it, so a covered porch is one answer rather than one per pot. A single growing space can disagree — a pot pulled out into the rain says so on its own page, and that beats the zone.

Why it matters: the app counts a good soaking as a watering. Under a roof that never happens, so without this it can tell you a plant has been watered when nothing reached it.

You do not have to answer. Leaving it alone means rain counts, which is right for almost all of a garden — and not answered stays different from no. Tapping the answer you already chose clears it again.

I could not tell whether “Front Porch” was a garden zone or a growing space. Does the app say?

It does now — from 9 September 2026, everywhere it names one. The pills at the top of a plant, a growing space or a garden zone read the kind first and then the name: GARDEN ZONE | Back yard › and GROWING SPACE | Tomato bed ›. Tapping one opens it, so you can walk plant → growing space → garden zone → your garden without going back to the Garden screen.

The labels use three words — garden zone, growing space, plant — though the screens also say bed, pot and zone where those are plainer.

The line under a plant’s name used to repeat its growing space and did not say what it was. It does not repeat it any more: the labeled pill is directly above, so that line is now only about the plant itself — where it stands in the bed, how many there are, when it went in.

Your garden itself is not labeled, because it is already called My garden and GARDEN My garden would just be saying it twice.

The Add a plant screen asks where it is with pictures now. What changed?

It is the same picker the plant’s own page uses to move a plant — from 9 September 2026. Where is it? used to be a row of every place name you have, plus a box to type a new one. Now each growing space is a card with a picture on it: its own latest photo if it has one, otherwise the art of whatever mostly grows there.

With seven or more growing spaces your garden zones come first, as a grid of pictures. Tap one and its spaces appear below. There is a search box, and a card can carry a line saying something worth knowing — that a bed is full at this crop’s spacing, or that something already growing there does your plant good or harm, with the reason.

Nothing about adding changed. Somewhere new names a place that does not exist yet and the app asks what kind it is, exactly as before. And if you have no growing spaces at all, the naming box is simply open — there is nothing to pick from yet, so it is the first thing you see.

I am looking at a growing space. How do I add a plant to it?

+ Add a plant, at the head of the list of what is in it — and from 9 September 2026 it fills the growing space in for you.

It used to sit under that list, which meant it moved further down the page every time you added a plant — about two and a half screens down on a space with four things in it, and worse after that. It now sits above the list instead, so it is in the same place whether the space holds one plant or twenty-four.

And it now carries the space with it. The add screen opens with Where is it? already filled in and a line saying Adding to Front porch — the growing space you came from. Before today that link went to a blank add screen and you had to name the space again. Pick a different one below if you want it somewhere else; nothing is locked.

A growing space with nothing in it yet still has the button, which is the point of being able to make a space before you plant anything.

There is a button of three dots at the top of a plant, a space and a garden zone now. What is in it?

Everything you can do to that record — new on 9 September 2026, and it is the same button in the same place on all three. It sits at the right-hand end of the small gray line that names the kind of page you are on: PLANT, GROWING SPACE, GARDEN ZONE.

A plant offers Write something down (the log, with that plant already chosen), Edit details, Move to another growing space, Say it is done and Delete this plant. A growing space offers Edit details, Move to another garden zone — or Put it in a garden zone when it is not in one — and Delete this growing space. A garden zone offers Edit details and Take this garden zone apart; it is not offered a move, because a garden zone does not sit inside anything.

Nothing in it makes anything new. The + in the bottom bar is where you add a plant, a growing space or a garden zone; this button only acts on the thing you are already looking at.

And nothing in it takes a shortcut past a question worth asking. Say it is done opens a sheet that asks which of Harvested out, It died or Pulled it out it was — three different facts about a season, and the app will not guess between them. Delete still counts what would go with it and names that before it asks.

Arranging the plants on a bed is deliberately not in it. That button belongs on the drawing it works on, and it is still there.

What can I change about a growing space?

Tap its card on the Garden screen and open it, and you get its own screen. Tap Details, then Edit: its name, what it is part of, what kind it is, and its size — width and length, depth for a raised bed, or gallons for a container. You can also delete it there, or from the three-dot button at the top.

Only the name is ever needed. The rest is there because the app can use it — a bed's size is what a filling calculation needs, and whether something is in the ground or in a pot changes how fast it dries out — but a growing space with nothing but a name works everywhere in the app.

How much soil does a new bed take, and what goes in it?

Give a bed a width, a length and a depth and it works out how many bags — the number you need in the aisle, not a volume in cubic feet. It now also tells you how much of that should be compost: a quarter to a half of it, with the rest topsoil or a soilless growing mix.

That share is a range because the four US extension services we checked give a range — Maryland, Utah State, Minnesota and Penn State all land between a quarter and a half, and none publishes a single figure. Half is a ceiling rather than a target: too much compost dries out and then repels water, which is the common and expensive way to get this wrong.

What it will not do is hand you a three-way shopping list. What is under the bed changes the mix — turf, heavy clay and a patio each want something different — and we do not ask you that yet. Nothing we found states a fill for perennials either; every figure we hold is stated for vegetables.

I deleted a growing space and it came back.

Then one of your other devices still had a plant in it that this one had not seen yet. We stop the delete rather than lose that plant, and put the growing space back exactly as it was.

Open the app on your other device and let it catch up, then delete again. If you only ever use one device, this cannot happen to you.

Until 6 September 2026 the growing space came back without its name. That was a bug and it is fixed. The plants were never lost.

What happens to the plants if I delete a growing space?

They are deleted with it, and the app says so before it does anything. Deleting a growing space counts what is inside first and names it — how many plants, and how many journal entries go with them — and you confirm that, or cancel.

It is worth being plain about this: you are not offered a choice about where the plants go. The cascade is the thing you are consenting to. If you want to keep them, move them to another growing space first, or end them properly instead — ending a plant and deleting one are different things on purpose, and only one of them keeps your history.

How do I know if a plant needs a stake or a trellis?

The app tells you while you are picking its spot, since 26 August 2026.

Add a plant that needs holding up and a line appears under Where is it? — This plant needs support — a stake, cage or trellis. It is there at that moment on purpose: a support is easy to put in before the plant is in the ground and awkward afterwards, when you are working around roots and stems that are already in your way.

It names the need rather than the method, because the need is what we actually know. Twenty-four of our plants want holding up and they do not all want the same thing — a pole bean climbs netting, a young apple wants a stake, borage simply flops. You can see which one yours is; we would only be guessing.

It says nothing at all for most plants. That is the point. A note that appeared on everything is a note you would stop reading.

Does the name matter, or should I use proper names like Bed 1?

Whatever you call it out loud. The app groups everything by where it sits, so the name you type is the name you will read on every list — back bed, front porch, big pot by the door. There is nothing to match and no format to get right.

If you name a growing space that already exists, the app adds to that one rather than making a second with the same name.

A bed's page used to open on its measurements. Where have they gone?

On a Details tab, from 9 September 2026 — and before that, for three days, under a gray row at the bottom of the page. Nothing was removed at any point: the name, the kind, the size, the depth and the sun are all still there, in the same order.

They came off the front of the page on 6 September because you answer them once and then never look at them again, and they were taking the whole first screen of every visit. What you actually want when you open a bed is what is in it, so that is what opens: the plants, then a button to water the whole space and one to add a plant, then everything that has happened there.

Folding them away went too far. A lot of that seems to be hidden today, is how it was put to us, and it was right — a gray row at the bottom of a long page is not somewhere anybody looks. So the page now has two tabs under its photo, Overview and Details, and Details is one tap from anywhere on the page.

Details reads the facts back rather than opening a form. What you call it · Part of · What kind · How big · How much sun, each with its answer beside it, and Not set where you have not said. Tap Edit to change them and Done when you are finished — which is also why a thumb on the page cannot alter anything by accident.

The greenhouse option is gone from "what kind of space is this?". Did I lose something?

No, and nothing about your greenhouse changed — 31 August 2026.

The question now offers three answers instead of four: a raised bed, in the ground, or a pot or container. All three say the same kind of thing — what the roots are sitting in. A greenhouse does not. It says what is overhead, which is a different fact, and mixing the two meant somebody with a potted lemon under glass had to pick which half of the truth to tell us.

A greenhouse is a garden zone, so it is becoming one. It sits at the level above — the level that holds a back yard or a front porch — and the pot inside it stays a pot. That way both facts survive instead of one costing the other.

Nothing you already told us was thrown away. A space you have already marked as a greenhouse keeps that mark, keeps its size boxes, and is still treated as being under a roof: rain that falls on your garden is not counted as having watered it, because glass sheds rain. Name a space Greenhouse and the app still reads that off the name.

And the cold is unchanged, on purpose. An unheated greenhouse still freezes on a hard night, and we have no way to know whether yours is heated — so frost warnings and hardening-off advice treat it exactly as they did before. Being a garden zone rather than a kind of growing space does not make it warm.

What is a garden zone, and do I need one?

A garden zone is a part of your garden that holds several growing spaces — new on 31 August 2026. Your back yard. Your front porch. The side of the house.

You do not need one. Every growing space works on its own, exactly as before, and most gardens never group anything. It is there for the moment you find yourself saying "the whole front porch" and meaning four pots at once.

How to make one — from 17 September 2026, on the Garden screen itself. With no garden zones at all, the Not in a zone yet section carries a card explaining what one is for and a Make a zone button. Once you have at least one, that same button sits under the list whenever two or more growing spaces are still loose. Either way: tick the ones that sit together and give the garden zone a name.

Renaming or removing one now happens on the zone itself. From 22 September 2026 the ⋯ beside the zone's heading in Spaces holds the same Rename and Remove zone, plus See on the map. Open it from the Garden screen and its header carries a ⋯ — Rename, or Remove zone, which asks you to confirm, says the growing spaces inside stay just without a zone, and gives you a minute to tap Undo. The garden zone's own page (tap its name) still carries the older three-dot button too, with Edit details and Take this garden zone apart — the same action, an older door to it. There is no way to delete a bed from either door, on purpose.

⚠ One honest limit, and it is worth knowing before you lean on it: garden zones do not nest. If you make a back yard and also a back yard orchard, those are two separate garden zones, and a tree in the orchard is not also in the back yard. We chose one level because every total the app works out stays simple and cannot count the same tree twice. If you find yourself wanting the other thing, tell us — it is a small change to make later and we would rather know it matters.

A card appeared telling me what garden zones are for. Is that a mistake?

No — that is deliberate, and new on 31 August 2026.

When you have not made something yet, we would rather explain what it is for than show you an empty list. An empty list tells you nothing you did not already know. So the card says what the thing does for you, links here, and offers the one way to start.

From 8 September 2026 it waits until you have two growing spaces. One space cannot be grouped, and until then the card was offering to group a garden with one pot in it. It also says only what a garden zone really does for you now: say once that the porch is under cover and every pot on it knows, a walk goes zone by zone, and each zone gets a page of its own. It used to promise that the app could water and warn about a whole zone as one. From 9 September 2026 you can water a whole garden zone in one tap — the watering half is real now, and the card says it. It could warn about a whole zone as one, and it cannot yet, so the card still does not say that.

It goes away the moment you have one. It is not a nag and there is nothing to dismiss — it is the space where your garden zones will be, saying what will be there.

I put three bush beans in one pot and the app shows them as a single row. Why?

It does not any more — from 8 September 2026, a count in a pot is a count of plants.

Some crops are things you can point at: a tomato, a pepper, a bean. Six of them are six plants, each with its own name, its own journal and its own place in the bed. Others are sown by the handful — carrots, radishes, spinach — and nobody counts those, so the app keeps them as one sowing with a number on it, drawn as a bar.

A bush bean is normally the second kind, because in a bed it is a row. In a pot it is not. You do not sow a row in a pot — you put three beans in it, you know there are three, and each one is a plant you can look at. So the same crop is now read differently depending on what it is standing in, and three beans in a pot become three beans.

Plants you already had are fixed the first time you open the growing space, in place, keeping the entry you already made. One limit worth knowing: there is no way to put them back together, so if you sow something in a pot by the handful, leave the number off.

One of my plants was drawn outside its pot. Where did it go?

Back in the pot, on its own, the next time you open that growing space — 8 September 2026.

For a few days a plant wider than the pot it is in could be recorded well outside it — in one case a small tree sitting nine inches beyond the edge of a thirteen-inch pot. The drawing already refused to draw it out there and sketched it inside instead, which was the right thing to look at but left the record itself still saying somewhere impossible.

Now the record is put right too. Opening the growing space moves any plant whose recorded spot is not on that bed back onto it, and the old spot is kept as history rather than erased — the app does not pretend it never happened. You do not have to do anything, and nothing you placed by hand is moved, because a spot you dragged is on the bed by definition.

And it cannot happen again from the drag itself — a plant bigger than its pot now stays inside it while you move it, which also fixed the pot plant that could not be moved at all.

There is a picture on the card about garden zones. What is it showing me?

Your garden from above — changed 31 August 2026.

It shows one property seen from overhead: a house, fruit trees along the boundary, a vegetable plot in the ground, a couple of raised beds, and pots by the door. All of it on one piece of ground.

That is what a garden zone is. Not a thing you grow in — the part of your garden that several growing things share. Looking down at a whole property is the only angle that can show you things belonging together, which is the entire idea.

The first version was a lit patch of ground at dusk with a bed, some pots and a row on it. It showed three growing spaces near each other and could not show that they belonged to one place. This was Nik’s idea and it is better.

The card about growing spaces shows the opposite on purpose: exactly one empty raised bed with a watering can beside it. One thing, not several — and empty rather than full, because a picture of somebody else’s thriving bed on a card telling you that you have none would be showing off rather than explaining.

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